The World Is Too Much With Me...

Why I have not been blogging much lately....


"THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US; LATE AND SOON"

THE world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
--William Wordsworth

from My Medicated Life

from My Medicated Life

from MedlinePlus

A Class Act

Senator Obama has such class. And wit. This is a joy to watch.

Service With a Smile

I became confused when I heard these terms which reference the word 'service'.

Internal Revenue 'Service'

U.S. Postal 'Service'

Telephone 'Service'

T.V. 'Service'

Civil 'Service'

City & County Public 'Service'

Customer 'Service'

and 'Service' Stations



This is not what I thought 'service' meant.


But today, I overheard two farmers talking, and one of them said

he had hired a bull to 'service' a few cows.

BAM!!!

It all came into perspective.

I now understand what all those 'service' agencies are doing to us.

I hope you are as enlightened as I am.

Jackasselope Spotted At Rural Residence!

My husband discovered this creature by the woodshed and shot it with my camera today. Until seeing the photo I had never seen a jackasselope, and will no doubt have nightmares after viewing it.

It's so ugly that it's almost cute. But, hey, it splits wood! And it attracts black flies, drawing them away from other living creatures.

Who couldn't use one of these?

Itipini Community Project & Mthatha Mission

clipped from www.youtube.com Itipini Community Project clipped from mthathamission.blogspot.com There are several people I see regularly around Itipini who are about my age. It is impossible to look at them and not think about the wildly divergent paths our lives have taken since 1982. Often they have a child (or children), many have HIV, virtually none has a high school diploma, none has a formal job, and all live in tumbling-down shanties that barely deserve the word. As I’ve gotten to know them over the months, I’ve realized many of them are also quite talented, funny, intelligent, and hard-working, and, really, not all that different from me. What’s been different, of course, is the opportunities available to us by virtue of where we were born and where and how we were raised I had access to supportive parents, good schools, and an economy that produced opportunities like this one, among a whole host of other advantages. My peers in Itipini had almost none of that clipped from mthathamission.blogspot.com My high-school English students clipped from mthathamission.blogspot.com Noncedo Mthunsikazi Nonzuzo Luleka Nonhlazo Ayabonga Lindiwe

I've been following Jesse Zink's blog Mthatha Mission for many months. When I ran across the video today, which incorporates some of his photos, I put the the video and Jesse's excellent blog together to share both with others who may not know of the work being done to help the people who, by accident of birth, live in the Itipini community outside Mthatha, South Africa.